Twisted Alexander modules of hyperplane arrangement complements (Q2661000)

The author studies torsion properties of the twisted Alexander modules of the affine complement \(M\) of a complex essential hyperplane arrangement, as well as those of punctured stratified tubular neighborhoods of complex essential hyperplane arrangements. The first part of the paper is devoted to divisibility properties between the twisted Alexander polynomials of the two spaces. In the first step, one computes the (first) twisted Alexander polynomial of a punctured stratified tubular neighborhood of an essential line arrangement, and then study the possible roots of the twisted Alexander polynomials of both the complement and the punctured stratified tubular neighborhood of an essential hyperplane arrangement in higher dimensions. One can apply those results to distinguish non-homeomorphic homotopy equivalent arrangement complements. Moreover, the author relates the twisted Alexander polynomials of \(M\) with the corresponding twisted homology jump loci.